Linda Carroll and David Rosner are longtime journalists and authors who have collaborated on three nonfiction books, most recently Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings. Published in the spring of 2018 by Hachette Books, that rags-to-riches story of Stymie and Hirsch Jacobs has received a positive Wall Street Journal review and has ranked as an“Amazon #1 Best Seller” in the categories of Sports Biographies, Sports History,Horses, and Horse Racing. The co-authors’ first book was The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic. Published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster, it ranked among The Boston Globe’s “10 Best Sports Books of the Year” and received positive New York Times and Washington Post reviews.

Linda Carroll is a contract writer for NBC News, winning a 2013 Peabody Award for her reporting on a series exploring the national scourge of poverty. In addition to nearly two decades of articles and columns for NBCNews.com (formerly msnbc.com), she covers health for Reuters and has written for such newspapers as the New York Times and such national magazines as Health and SmartMoney. An accomplished equestrian who owns and operates a horse farm in New Jersey, she boasts three decades of experience in breeding, training, and showing Arabians and Oldenburgs. Her herd includes a Thoroughbred broodmare whose sire is two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic champion Tiznow and whose pedigree (like Affirmed’s and Alydar’s) traces back through Native through Native Dancer and Man o’ War.

David Rosner is a veteran sportswriter whose work has appeared in major metro newspapers and national magazines. While on staff at Newsday in New York, he won national awards for investigative reporting and sports event coverage from the Associated Press Sports Editors association before co-authoring The Official Illustrated NHL History and editing the hockeymagazine Rinkside. As a Newsday cub reporter, he was introduced to turf writing when his first bylined stories chronicled the harrowing 1977 Belmont Park spill that hospitalized wunderkind jockey Steve Cauthen and delayed the seventeen-year-old prodigy’s debut as Affirmed’s regular rider.